The policy should offer an accessible alternative format
The requirementstatement
The privacy policy must carry an accessibility statement or a route to an alternative format.
- Severityseverity
- LowLOWBest practice. Worth fixing, rarely fatal on its own.
- When it bitesphase
- Gates approvalapprovalGet this wrong and the brand or campaign is refused at registration.
- What is checkedobject
- privacy policy body
- Where it liveslayer
- Policy pagesPOLICY_PAGE
- How Ekas settles itdetectability
- AI · formAI_FORM
- A semantic question about what you wrote: whether a description matches a use case, whether a name looks like a filed entity. Judged by a model against written criteria.
- What the fix involvesfailureClass
- Fix the policyTERMINAL_POLICY
- The fix lives in your privacy policy or SMS terms. Ekas can generate the missing clauses.
- Who requires itauthorities
- CCPA
- When it appliesapplicabilityText
- Applies to every 10DLC registration.
Why this rule existsrationale
A consumer who cannot read the page cannot exercise any right in it, and California expects a route for people with disabilities. It costs one line and it is the kind of omission that reads badly next to a document otherwise full of rights.
How to fix itremediation
Add a line offering the policy in an alternative format on request, with a contact route. Done when the document says how to get it in another form.
A compliant exampleexample
Need this policy in another format? Email support@acmecoffee.com or call 415-555-0134 and we will provide one.
Rules you will hit next
6 other rules read privacy policy body. Fixing one field to satisfy a single rule is how a resubmission trades one rejection for another, so read these before you change anything.
POL-050Privacy policy must state mobile opt-in data is not shared or soldBlockingBLOCKINGPOL-063A policy that says mobile opt-in data is shared is refused outrightBlockingBLOCKINGPOL-078A political brand is held to the same data-sharing banBlockingBLOCKINGPOL-079A charity policy must bar anyone but the charity from using subscriber dataBlockingBLOCKINGPOL-109A cart-reminder programme must say how abandonment is detectedBlockingBLOCKINGPOL-053The clause must say NOT SHARED, not merely "not sold"HighHIGH
POL-138 is one of 157 policy pages rules in the 915-rule 10DLC registry. Free to cite under CC BY 4.0.